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This country is at war with Germany. We shall go under the end.

I remember the sheets of planes came up and almost blinded us for my guns.

Hello and welcome to another episode of the World War Two podcast. I'm Angus Wallace.

In late 1944, as a precursor to the inversion of the Philippines,

US military analysts decided to seize the small island of Pellalo to ensure the Japanese airfield

there could not threaten the invasion forces. It was estimated that the island would fall in a

week or so. In fact, the fighting on Pellalo would go on for 74 days. The US would pay a heavy

price for capturing the island with a higher casualty rate than both the fighting on Iwo Jima

and Okinawa. Today, I'm joined by Pacific War historian Joseph Whelan,

and author of Bitter Pellalo, the forgotten struggle on the Pacific Wars worst battlefield.

Joseph, thanks for joining me. Let's start by placing Pellalo geographically. Where is it in the

Pacific? It's part of the Palau Islands and that chain is 500 miles directly east to the

Philippines and see seven degrees north of the equator. It's out there in the western Pacific,

part of the Caroline Island. It's pretty obscure. Tell it was just one of the Pellalo Islands,

but there was an air strip there. That was the key. What surprised me is it is actually a Japanese

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